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From the Museum of Badalona we are preparing new educational content that will expand the school offer for the next academic year 2020-21. We are working to bring the daily life of our Roman ancestors closer to the school public with educational innovations that will complete the guided tour to the archaeological sites of the Roman Baetulo.

With this in mind, we are preparing a wide range of new interactive workshops and proposals in different formats that will help us learn about such interesting aspects as the role of women in the family economy, the devaluation of the currency, how fashion came to all corners of the Empire, the life expectancy of children or the fake news of antiquity that have come to us from the hand of Hollywood. We are fully aware of the new normality that we have to live so we are designing all these proposals so that they can be made through the new communication platforms (zoom, Google Meet, Team …).

We will keep you informed!

With the desire to bring our users closer to the different activities and proposals that we organize from the Museum, we have begun to work on the option of seeing online the exhibitions that we are producing.

The first of these exhibits, which you can find at the following link, is PORTRAITS, that could be seen at the Museum until July 5th, and which brought together a set of portraits in painting or drawing belonging to the Art’s collection of the Museum, as well as other outstanding works that were lent for the occasion.

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On the occasion of the bicentenary of the birth of the financier Evarist Arnús Ferrer (Barcelona 1820-1890), closely linked to our city, the Museum is preparing an exhibition and a serie of lectures for the autumn.

His relationship with Badalona dates back to 1859, when he began to make real estate investments with the purchase, at auction, of part of the Can Solei estate, which he converted into a summer residence (the current Ca l’Arnús ). In 1888, Queen Maria Cristina and the President of the Council of Ministers, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, were received on this estate, and as a result of this visit, Badalona City Council was granted the treatment of Excelence.

A much-loved figure in the town, in 1884 Arnús was named the adopted son of Badalona for the philanthropic works he had carried out there, and in 1887, on the occasion of his onomastics and as a token of gratitude, the town hall agreed to give its name to Carrer del Pilar where, with its sponsorship, the Sant Andreu asylum (currently a school) had been built. The old Carrer del Pilar is, therefore, the current Carrer d’Arnús.

On July 16th, most towns on the Catalan coast celebrated the feast of the Virgin of Carme, the patron saint of seafarers. Sailors, fishermen and all kinds of sailors worshiped her to protect them from the most common dangers of the sea.

The ritual of the Carme festival was, more or less, the following: the local fishermen’s guild took the image of the Virgin in procession and carried it to the beach, where it was placed in a boat decorated for the occasion. The procession continued to the sea accompanied by the boats.

In Badalona, ​​in addition, in the afternoon, there was a procession with the Virgen del Carme that started in the church of the Carmelite Fathers -located in Carrer de Sant Miquel-, went through many of the streets of the neighborhood of Baix a Mar , passed by the Rambla and returned to the church.

This procession was accompanied by the boys and girls from the nearby schools who had made their first communion that year, who were dressed as the day of this ceremony.

The gallery that we present includes some photographs of this festival, most of which are part of the Museum’s collections thanks to the donation and permission of several families in the city.

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